Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] and [vb past] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first it was part of a dream , which vanished as soon as I woke and knew that I was alone on the broch island , lying on the turf in a sleeping-bag , with my head pillowed on my rolled-up sweater , but seemingly connected with the earth itself , from which , apparently right below my head , came a sound every bit as strange as the mermaids ' song of the seals . |
| 2 | I turned and saw that it was the full moon , framed in a space of jagged glass . |
| 3 | Then I laughed and explained that he meant ‘ Frankly speaking ’ . |
| 4 | Or rather , she wanted to say , you talked and ruined my life , I listened and wished that I had n't . |
| 5 | ‘ She hurt him dreadfully when he came home from Africa , crippled and his career in the army over , just when he needed her loving support the most , and now she has the gall to chase him again , when I hoped and prayed that he had finally recovered from her brutal treatment of him . ’ |
| 6 | Whereupon Mr Gamage himself appeared and stated that he was fully prepared to be shot in the hand from close range , in the full view of the court , in order to defend his honour and his business interests . |
| 7 | The fact that nobody wrote and said that he was brilliant and was a genius convinced him that it was n't Robert Bolt who was at fault or the director Noel Willman , but himself as an actor . |
| 8 | Charity glanced at the clock as she poured and announced that she 'd missed it , Peregrine asking if it mattered a hoot anyway , the wireless these day being so hopelessly uninformative , with nothing more important to impart than news of patrol activity on the Maginot Line . |
| 9 | Stepping out on to grass she turned and knew that she was one of the few in all history and legend who could safely look a dragon in the eye . |
| 10 | The sister did not like this at all and called the paediatrician , who examined and decided that he ought to go down to the special care baby unit after all . |
| 11 | She was so enthusiastic about what she saw and liked that she could transmit her ideas even if the appeal was not immediately obvious to us . |
| 12 | In the bed she lay and imagined that she had never come here , that her life went on , between the shop of Mr Gerard and the flat . |
| 13 | She smiled and gestured that she could n't hear him . |
| 14 | We investigates and discovered that I was carrying more than half a litre of cyst . |
| 15 | To us , the black laver bread looked dreadful , poisonous , but we understood and respected that it was something Welsh , something special . |
| 16 | His minders were angry with us when we said and wrote that he is no great orator . |
| 17 | Yeah , and we explained and said that I was pregnant at the time and we said about the policeman , oh no trouble ! |
| 18 | The English clerk watched him go and realised that he , too , must return to the abbey . |
| 19 | ‘ I had seen them live and thought that they had an energy . |
| 20 | Outside he stopped and realised that he would have to make his own way back . |
| 21 | Here he dismounted and prayed that whatever spirit had been working within him would continue to work , that this furious feeling of benevolence to all mind — if only a beggar would pass by and he could give him a shilling ! — would not abate , that he ‘ could truly and today start a new life , O Lord , for Thy sake and in Thy name ’ . |
| 22 | He fired and believed that it had gone down . |
| 23 | He saw and understood that she had prepared herself for him . |
| 24 | ‘ He laughed and said that nobody under ninety called himself that nowadays . |
| 25 | He shrugged and said that he loved her , which was reassuring to hear if not particularly helpful . |
| 26 | When he came along erm was about he was more or less asked what terms he wanted and said that he was no to show no favouritism . |
| 27 | When they announced that Hodge was playing , this Leeds ‘ fan ’ behind me groaned and said that he hoped he 'd have his leg broken ! |